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with developing countries to systematically identify needs and build capacity,
including support for monitoring, control, surveillance, compliance and enforcement
systems.
171. We call upon States that have signed the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and
Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing 45 to expedite procedures for
its ratification with a view to its early entry into force.
172. We recognize the need for transparency and accountability in fisheries
management by regional fisheries management organizations. We recognize the
efforts already made by those regional fisheries management organizations that have
undertaken independent performance reviews, and call upon all regional fisheries
management organizations to regularly undertake such reviews and make the results
publicly available. We encourage implementation of the recommendations of such
reviews and recommend that the comprehensiveness of those reviews be
strengthened over time, as necessary.
173. We reaffirm our commitment in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation to
eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and
overcapacity, taking into account the importance of this sector to developing
countries, and we reiterate our commitment to conclude multilateral disciplines on
fisheries subsidies that will give effect to the mandates of the World Trade
Organization Doha Development Agenda 46 and the Hong Kong Ministerial
Declaration 47 to strengthen disciplines on subsidies in the fisheries sector, including
through the prohibition of certain forms of fisheries subsidies that contribute to
overcapacity and overfishing, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and
differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an
integral part of World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation, taking into
account the importance of the sector to development priorities, poverty reduction
and livelihood and food security concerns. We encourage States to further improve
the transparency and reporting of existing fisheries subsidies programmes through
the World Trade Organization. Given the state of fisheries resources, and without
prejudicing the Doha and Hong Kong ministerial mandates on fisheries subsidies or
the need to conclude these negotiations, we encourage States to eliminate subsidies
that contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, and to refrain from introducing new
such subsidies or from extending or enhancing existing ones.
174. We urge the identification and mainstreaming by 2014 of strategies that further
assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and small
island developing States, in developing their national capacity to conserve,
sustainably manage and realize the benefits of sustainable fisheries, including
through improved market access for fish products from developing countries.
175. We commit to observe the need to ensure access to fisheries and the
importance of access to markets, by subsistence, small-scale and artisanal fisherfolk
and women fish workers, as well as indigenous peoples and their communities,
particularly in developing countries, especially small island developing States.
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45
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the Conference of FAO, Thirty-sixth
Session, Rome, 18–23 November 2009 (C 2009/REP and Corr.1–3), appendix E.
46
See A/C.2/56/7, annex.
47
World Trade Organization, document WT/MIN(05)/DEC.
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